Taking a swipe at those protesting the government's move to construct coal-based power plants, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says some people have a bizarre imagination about coal and coal-based power plants which have already led to the loss of a few lives.

Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds.

The government is not adequately responding to naturally occurring arsenic in drinking water across large areas of rural Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report.

Global sea levels could rise by more than double the current best estimate, according to a new analysis of climate change in Antarctica.

A fire that broke out in Chandpai Range of the Sundarbans in Bagerhat last evening has been brought under control. Reason behind the fire is yet to be ascertained.

In the name of ‘scientific research’, Japan kills 333 minke whales, including over 200 pregnant females, in the Antarctic in 2015-16 whaling season.

For the first time in 40 years, a species of rhino has been seen in Kalimantan, the Indonesia part of Borneo.

The ash tree is likely to be wiped out in Europe, according to a review of the evidence.

After about eight dives into the deep water of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument of north-west Hawaii, some thousands of samples and images of never-before-seen life and landforms have been collected.

A roughly 2,000-square-mile block of ice just broke off in the Arctic Ocean.

Australia's most newly-discovered spider surfs, swims and can catch prey up to three times its own size!

The large carcass of a mysterious sea creature that washes up on a tourist beach perplex local officials and residents in Mexico. The monstrous 13-foot-long beast is discovered on Bonfil Beach, in the city of Acapulco, in the south-west Mexican state of Guerrero,

Planting trees around rivers could reduce the height of flooding in towns by up to 20 percent new research suggests.

Pierre Mayaudon, ambassador of the European Union to Bangladesh, visited the laboratory and headquarters of

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Dhaka University will hold the Seventh Biochemistry Olympiad on March 10 on the Curzon Hall premises at the university. Details are at www.biochemolympiad.org, or at the department office.

Greenland’s snow-white ice is getting darker and melting faster, according to a new study, published in the European Geosciences Union journal The Cryosphere.

The effects of climate change on food production could cause 500,000 extra deaths by 2050 compared to a world without global warming, according to a study released Thursday.

Wildlife monitoring network Traffic finds hundreds of protected animals for sale on Facebook groups in Malaysia, including sun bears, gibbons, and binturongs, also known as bearcats.

The UK government has been warned to drastically reduce air pollution or face renewed legal action.

Industry Minister Amir Hossain Amu says that rawhide would not be allowed to enter tannery factories at Dhaka’s Hajaribagh to avert environment pollution in this area.